Readers Respond: How Should Obama Flex His Executive Muscle? Readers Respond: How Should Obama Flex His Executive Muscle?
Nation readers provided good ideas—and a bit of wariness—when asked how Obamas should use his presidential authority.
Jan 24, 2013 / Feature / The Editors
Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Center-Left America Is Already Here Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Center-Left America Is Already Here
The majority of citizens support progressive agenda items like cuts in defense spending and higher taxes on the very rich.
Jan 23, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Obama’s Shout-Out to Freedom Obama’s Shout-Out to Freedom
In his second inaugural address, the president stood for collective action, solidarity, social justice. Now let’s make him act on it.
Jan 23, 2013 / Editorial / The Editors
From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall
President Obama’s symbolic recognition of minorities isn’t a substitute for policy, but it does matter.
Jan 23, 2013 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
What Obama’s Inaugural Address Got Wrong About Poverty What Obama’s Inaugural Address Got Wrong About Poverty
It makes no sense to suggest that a poor child could ever have “the same chance to succeed as anybody else.”
Jan 22, 2013 / Blog / Betsy Reed
MSNBC Incorrectly Reports No Permits Were Requested to Protest Obama’s Inauguration MSNBC Incorrectly Reports No Permits Were Requested to Protest Obama’s Inauguration
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow incorrectly stated that no protest permits were requested for President Obama’s second inauguration.
Jan 22, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Barack Obama Charts an Arc of History That Bends Toward Justice Barack Obama Charts an Arc of History That Bends Toward Justice
Obama’s second inaugural address laid out a new progressive vision. Now we must make it real.
Jan 21, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
This President Can—and Must—Claim a Mandate to Govern This President Can—and Must—Claim a Mandate to Govern
Like FDR, Obama should use his second inaugural address to make the vital connection between election results and governing results.
Jan 20, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Filibuster Reform Is Essential to Enacting Gun-Safety Legislation Filibuster Reform Is Essential to Enacting Gun-Safety Legislation
Every evidence suggests, in the absence of the reforms proposed by Senators Jeff Merkley and Elizabeth Warren, any debate about meaningful gun-safety legislation will be preempted,...
Jan 18, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Congressional Progressives: Abolish the Debt Ceiling Congressional Progressives: Abolish the Debt Ceiling
Some members want to end this standoff over the debt ceiling—and all others.
Jan 17, 2013 / Blog / George Zornick